I went to Newegg last week and bought a Corsair CMXAF1 fan for my RAM to keep it nice and cool. It worked well to keep the temperatures down… my RAM went from being hot to the touch (uncomfortably so) to feeling room-temperature. After I installed the fan (and my new eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB!) I closed up the case and forgot about it.
Last night, though, when I turned on my computer, the fan started grinding like mad. Oh no, bad already? I contacted Newegg to ask for an RMA, and to ask if I could get a prepaid shipping label since shipping the fan would cost a good chunk of the fan’s value anyways. Rather than bother with an RMA, they just said “here, have a refund… throw the fan away or RMA it with Corsair, whatever you like.” Wow! So a free fan that I can pay a few $ to ship to Corsair. Sweet!